Improvement in churns



F. WHITTON.

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No. 84,668. Patented Dec. 1, 1868.

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N. PEIERS, FhOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

FREDERICK WHITTON, OF SOUTH CARROLLTON, KENTUCKY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHURNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 84,668, dated December1,1868.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK WEIT'roN, of the town of South Garrollton,in county of Muhlenburg, in State of Kentucky, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Ohurn-Dashers; and I hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is an elevationshowing the gallows-frame, crank, handle, piston, pitman-top, and dasherof a churn. Fig. 2 is an elevation of an ordinary box to contain milk.Fig. 3 is horizontal section thereof. Fig. 4 is a perspective view ofthe dasher with the piston set in.

In the drawings, Figs. 1, 2, and 3 show a complete churn, which is tobeused with a dasher of a vertical or up-and-down stroke; but as myinvention relates merely to an improvement in the dasher, my descriptionwill be confined mainly to that.

In Fig. 4, Ais the piston. B B B B are the four perforated piecesfastened into it. C G C O are the holes perforated in these pieces, andcl (1 (Z are scallops or notches made in the ends of each piece.

I construct the piston and the four perforated pieces composing myimproved dasher of wood; and the object of my invention is to secure adasher which is cheap and simple in its construction, so that almost anyone with a few tools can make it; at the same time a dasher which, byits peculiar construction, will effect that thorough agitation of themilk and the division and exposure to the air of its particles which arenecessary to the production of butter by churning, easily, abundantly,and quickly.

The lower end of the piston should be made large enough to admit of thefour pieces B B B B being let into it sufficiently to hold them withoutdestroying its strength, and the four pieces should be just so long andso wide that when fixed upon the piston the whole dasher may move up anddown the body of the churn freely.

The perforations and notches may be in the usual proportions to thedimensions of the pieces themselves, which should be of suflicientthickness to give them proper strength, neither of these features beingnew.

The pieces are set upon the piston thus Two pieces are let into thepiston on opposite sides of it, and parallel to each other, their inneredges on the same level, and instead of forming a right angle with thepiston, they should each have a side inclination downward, so as to varyfrom a right angle by about fifteen degrees. They should be placed justso high upon the piston as to avoid contact with the body of the churnwhen the lower end of the piston touches it. Then the other two pieces,arranged in a similar manner, should be fixed upon the piston, but atright angles to the first two, and so far above them as to leave roomfor the milk to pass freely between them, so that both pairs of piecesare fixed upon the piston at the same angle thereto.

Claim.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let-' ters Patent, is-

The churn-dasher composed of the piston A and the four pieces B B B B,arranged together and constructed as and for the purpose'set forth anddescribed.

Witnesses: F. WHITTON.

STANLEY SINeLEToN, W. F. FINCH.

